In a Phase 3 trial of more than 18,000 volunteers across three countries, an mRNA influenza vaccine from Pfizer has outperformed standard seasonal flu shots by 34.5%. It's yet another sign that this ...

Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine uses the same ...

Researchers at MIT have just developed a new lipid nanoparticle that super-enhances the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine in mice to a hundred times its stand-alone effectiveness, thus offering ...

Vaccines that resemble viruses generally produce a stronger immune response, while mRNA versions are much quicker and cheaper to make. Now we are getting the best of both worlds, in the form of mRNA ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...

The United States may be losing its edge in mRNA technology­­. The technology, which powered life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and is now rocketing new cancer therapeutics forward, will soon undergo a ...

Dr. Bright is a virologist and a former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. In early 2020, when the first genetic sequence of the new coronavirus was posted online, ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Health officials during the first term said mRNA shots are safe and effective. When the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in ...

This week, President Donald Trump called Operation Warp Speed, a public-private federal program that helped speed up the development and distribution of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in record time “one of ...

With the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. canceling nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research contracts on Tuesday, you may be wondering if mRNA vaccines are safe.